I was asked;

"How can I make sure that the eyes in my portraits are both the same"

My answer;

"in the hundreds of portraits that I have drawn and painted, the eyes are always different"

inspired me to make a full tutorial about drawing and painting eyes.

I soon realised that eyes don't look that great without the rest of the face and so, I carried on and produced this mammoth masterclass on how I draw and paint my portraits.

In the tools required preview video you will see exactly what you need to do this course.

Don't worry, In the 35 years that I have been painting and drawing portraits, I have narrowed down my equipment to the bare minimum

You will watch over my shoulder as I show you how to get the image down on paper.

Don't worry if your drawing skills are not up to point, I will show you how my unique tracedown system works.

Then we will draw and shade our portrait into a lovely pencil drawing.

I don't edit any of this process out, so simply follow me as I develop my drawing.

The next phase to the painting is masking out highlights with masking fluid.

This is a bit messy but well worth learning.